The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 13 8 8
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 44 58 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 15.12% 16.62% 15.79%
As % of the General category 18.26% 19.86% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 32 49 19
Average salary £82,500 £70,000 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £59,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £75,000 £97,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -
All of the General Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
241 292 162
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.82% 83.67% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 189 237 124
Average salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,050 £47,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Investment Banking
London

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Canary Wharf Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Investment Banking Salary Trend

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Investment Banking Salary Histogram

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Investment Banking also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Investment Banking.

1 152 (100.00%) Banking
2 80 (52.63%) Finance
3 56 (36.84%) C#
3 56 (36.84%) OO
4 46 (30.26%) Technical Architecture
5 42 (27.63%) Degree
5 42 (27.63%) Java
6 40 (26.32%) Oracle
7 38 (25.00%) Back Office
8 34 (22.37%) .NET
8 34 (22.37%) SQL
8 34 (22.37%) Basel III
9 30 (19.74%) ETL
10 29 (19.08%) Scrum
11 23 (15.13%) Project Management
11 23 (15.13%) Stress Testing
11 23 (15.13%) Multithreading
12 22 (14.47%) Data Modelling
13 21 (13.82%) UML
13 21 (13.82%) Validation
14 20 (13.16%) BPEL
14 20 (13.16%) UNIX
15 19 (12.50%) TDD
15 19 (12.50%) WCF
16 18 (11.84%) TeamCity
16 18 (11.84%) Rhino Mocks
16 18 (11.84%) Moq
16 18 (11.84%) BPMN
16 18 (11.84%) .NET Framework
16 18 (11.84%) Process Management

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Investment Banking also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Investment Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (22.37%) .NET
2 19 (12.50%) WCF
3 18 (11.84%) .NET Framework
4 16 (10.53%) XML
5 11 (7.237%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.974%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (1.974%) STL
7 2 (1.316%) J2SE
7 2 (1.316%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (1.316%) WPF
7 2 (1.316%) Guice
8 1 (0.658%) Spring
8 1 (0.658%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.658%) Guava
8 1 (0.658%) Middleware
8 1 (0.658%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.316%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.658%) GemFire
2 1 (0.658%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (0.658%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.658%) SAS
2 1 (0.658%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (3.289%) MS Office
2 4 (2.632%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.316%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.658%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.658%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.658%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.868%) FTP
2 1 (0.658%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.84%) SQL Server
1 18 (11.84%) SQLPlus
1 18 (11.84%) TOAD
2 16 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.237%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.974%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.316%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.658%) KDB
6 1 (0.658%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.658%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 18 (11.84%) TeamCity
1 18 (11.84%) Rhino Mocks
1 18 (11.84%) Moq
1 18 (11.84%) NUnit
1 18 (11.84%) CruiseControl
2 2 (1.316%) ClearCase
2 2 (1.316%) JIRA
3 1 (0.658%) TestDirector
General
1 152 (100.00%) Banking
2 80 (52.63%) Finance
3 38 (25.00%) Back Office
4 13 (8.553%) Front Office
5 11 (7.237%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.316%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.658%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (25.66%) Architect
2 34 (22.37%) Analyst
3 28 (18.42%) Developer
4 23 (15.13%) Business Analyst
4 23 (15.13%) Lead Architect
5 21 (13.82%) Project Manager
6 20 (13.16%) C# Developer
7 19 (12.50%) Lead Developer
7 19 (12.50%) Agile C# Developer
8 18 (11.84%) Lead C# Developer
9 16 (10.53%) Banking Business Analyst
10 15 (9.868%) Lead Technical Architect
10 15 (9.868%) Technical Architect
11 11 (7.237%) Release Manager
12 10 (6.579%) SQL Server Architect
12 10 (6.579%) C# Architect
12 10 (6.579%) Senior Manager
12 10 (6.579%) Senior Project Manager
13 9 (5.921%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (5.921%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.895%) Credit Risk
2 7 (4.605%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.289%) Computer Science
3 5 (3.289%) Equities
4 4 (2.632%) Derivative
5 2 (1.316%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.316%) SWIFT
5 2 (1.316%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.658%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.658%) Open Source
6 1 (0.658%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.658%) AS400
6 1 (0.658%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.16%) UNIX
2 17 (11.18%) Windows
3 11 (7.237%) Solaris
4 4 (2.632%) Linux
5 3 (1.974%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.84%) OO
2 46 (30.26%) Technical Architecture
3 30 (19.74%) ETL
4 29 (19.08%) Scrum
5 23 (15.13%) Project Management
5 23 (15.13%) Stress Testing
5 23 (15.13%) Multithreading
6 22 (14.47%) Data Modelling
7 21 (13.82%) UML
7 21 (13.82%) Validation
8 20 (13.16%) BPEL
9 19 (12.50%) TDD
10 18 (11.84%) BPMN
10 18 (11.84%) Process Management
11 16 (10.53%) Change Management
12 13 (8.553%) Business Analysis
13 12 (7.895%) Unit Testing
13 12 (7.895%) Release Management
13 12 (7.895%) PRINCE2
14 11 (7.237%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.84%) C#
2 42 (27.63%) Java
3 34 (22.37%) SQL
4 8 (5.263%) C++
5 3 (1.974%) Clojure
5 3 (1.974%) Scala
5 3 (1.974%) C
5 3 (1.974%) Perl
6 2 (1.316%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.316%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.316%) C-shell
6 2 (1.316%) Haskell
6 2 (1.316%) F#
7 1 (0.658%) RPG IV
7 1 (0.658%) RPG
7 1 (0.658%) COBOL
7 1 (0.658%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.658%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (27.63%) Degree
2 1 (0.658%) CFA
2 1 (0.658%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (0.658%) PMP
2 1 (0.658%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.37%) Basel III
2 13 (8.553%) QA
3 10 (6.579%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.316%) SLA
5 1 (0.658%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 2 (1.316%) YUM
1 2 (1.316%) Puppet
2 1 (0.658%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 40 (26.32%) Oracle
2 11 (7.237%) Business Objects
3 3 (1.974%) DataSynapse
3 3 (1.974%) Perforce
4 2 (1.316%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.316%) HP
4 2 (1.316%) Intel
4 2 (1.316%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.658%) Mantas
5 1 (0.658%) Actimize
5 1 (0.658%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.658%) Informatica
5 1 (0.658%) Fidessa